Founding Partner (Tech)

**About the company:** WAY Equity Partners Shibuya-ku, Tokyo WAY is a company builder on a mission to team up with exceptional founders and experts to create best-in-class software companies that solve our customer’s toughest problems. We act like a co-founder, providing our companies with expertise, money, and resources. **Responsibilities:** Translate user feedback into tangible, responsive changes in the product. You are obsessed with your customers and have a keen understanding of what they want. You are able to deconstruct their feedback into product iterations, moving ever closer to the product users need. Understand deeply the requisite fidelity of a product at each stage of its development. You are keenly attuned to the importance of gathering user feedback en masse in a product’s early stages, and able to continually iterate and ship MVP versions to gather critical user data. Design the technical architecture of the product. You can build a product from scratch and own it through every phase of development and feedback. You know how to make it work well and look good. Coordinate product development with business. You have a deep understanding of how the product interacts with business goals, and are able to create a long-term vision and roadmap that marries the two. Manage interdisciplinary teams to execute well. You understand the complexities of how front-end design interacts with back-end development, and can effectively manage the relationship between teams of designers and developers. Requirements Held a key technical role in an early stage startup, such as a product manager, full stack developer, technical lead, or founder Built and led high-performing engineering team(s) with a strong, collaborative team culture Built a product and grew it to scale, guiding its strategy along the way Decisive and agile; you have strong ideas, but you’re not too proud to change the product based on evidence and feedback Current resident of Japan (or already have plans to relocate to Japan on your own) APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION **Requirements:** Held a key technical role in an early stage startup, such as a product manager, full stack developer, technical lead, or founder Built and led high-performing engineering team(s) with a strong, collaborative team culture Built a product and grew it to scale, guiding its strategy along the way Decisive and agile; you have strong ideas, but you’re not too proud to change the product based on evidence and feedback Current resident of Japan (or already have plans to relocate to Japan on your own) APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION